Gnome display manager crashes on clicking show desktop button

Bug #236621 reported by George Dumitrescu
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meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When I click the Show Desktop button gnome display manager crashes to console. This is random. I do not know what make this happen. The only programs that was running is Firefox 3 and Aptana.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

Changed in meta-gnome2:
status: New → Invalid
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George Dumitrescu (geod) wrote :

 This is very annoying because you are losing your work if is not saved...
I can't tell you what is the problem, but I manage to replicate the method that makes the gnome to crash.
You must have firefox with a webpage that have flash, and another program (in my case the console). If I minimize the firefox window several times ... the gnome crashes...

I manage to recrod this on my phone and put it online at : http://blog.geod.ro/crash.tar.gz

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George Dumitrescu (geod) wrote :

p.s. i've enabled apport, but is not showing error, and crash dir is empty...

Please help me with this. THIS IS THE SINGLE AND MOST ANNOYING BUG IN UBUNTU....

Thank you.

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